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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich added longtime WNBA player Becky Hammon to his staff on Tuesday as an assistant coach. No contract details were available. Hammon is finishing her 16th WNBA season overall and her eighth with the San Antonio Stars. She announced last month that she is retiring as a player at the end of the 2014 season. "I very much look forward to the addition of Becky Hammon to our staff," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said in a statement. "Having observed her working with our team this past season, I'm confident her basketball IQ, work ethic and interpersonal skills will be a great benefit to the Spurs." Hammon, a six-time WNBA All-Star who...

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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich added longtime WNBA player Becky Hammon to his staff on Tuesday as an assistant coach.No contract details were available. Hammon is finishing her 16th WNBA season overall and her eighth with the San Antonio Stars....

Becky Hammon and the San Antonio Spurs crossed a significant cultural line Tuesday when the NBA champions named one the great guards in WNBA history the first full-time, paid female assistant on an NBA coaching staff.
"I'm just so thrilled to be...

STORRS — It was a field trip, which for some students is perhaps a license to tune out, lay low.
Jason Irizarry took a group of UConn basketball players from his urban education class to one of the poorest districts in the United States, to the South...

STORRS – You can't teach velocity. It's either there or it isn't. No one has ever had to tell Ryan Boatright to put the pedal to the floor. “I pretty much used to go 100 mph all the time,” he said.
Throughout high school and AAU outside Chicago, and...

Kentucky Coach John Calipari may have summed it up best when he said recently: "I just want the regular season over with."
Amen.
The NCAA tournament, which began Tuesday with play-in games, has arrived to rescue us from months of a different...

Obviously, the Bulls aren't always going to shoot 50.7 percent and place six in double figures against opponents less dysfunctional than the Knicks.
But the 104-80 season-opening blowout victory highlighted many points. Here are three:
Aaron Brooks is...

It's a big game if Tom Thibodeau is offering big-picture perspective.
"When you look at this city, the franchise, the history, the tradition and what basketball means here, it's a big deal," Thibodeau said of Chicago's excitement for this Bulls...

Aaron Brooks didn't need to review the career-reviving roles backup point guards like C.J. Watson, John Lucas III, Nate Robinson and D.J. Augustin have performed for the Bulls.
All the Seattle native had to do was listen to Robinson — who, uh, likes to...

What other players might have seen as injury rehab, Becky Hammon viewed as an "internship." While working to come back from a torn ACL last year, the six-time WNBA All-Star was just looking to stay around the game. And since her San Antonio...

Point guard Trey Burke, the Utah Jazz's first-round draft pick, will need surgery on his broken finger, and he is expected to be sidelined eight to 12 weeks. Pins must be inserted during the surgery to ensure full recovery, which is why it will take so...

Lovie Smith has to say he likes his group of offensive linemen. Just like we have to slam our palms to our foreheads.
Lovie Smith also has to say he’s “comfortable’’ with a left tackle who gave up the most sacks and committed the most false starts....

The Bulls without Derrick Rose have become mostly unwatchable.
It’s hard to care about this team without their only hope for an NBA title. It’s harder still to sit through it.
I’m not blaming the remaining Bulls players. Bless their hustling,...

After reaching all those dizzying heights and unfurling countless acrobatic moves in his first three spectacular seasons, Derrick Rose's fourth ended with an awful image. A jump stop. A clutch of his left knee as he rose two feet into the air. A...

Tom Thibodeau said the Bulls have to play to their strengths, and I’m wondering, do they have any left?
After that miserable Game 2 of the Bulls’ playoff series with Philadelphia, Luol Deng repeatedly said “Derrick’s not here,’’ meaning this is not...

So, I’m reading that Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer will have to put up another combined game of 40-plus points and 20-plus rebounds if the Bulls are going to win Game 6 in Philadelphia on Thursday night to force a deciding game at home.
Yes. Well. Does...

Five weeks from today, Maryland opens its 2012-13 men's basketball season against defending national champion Kentucky at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. It might be an opportunity for the Terps to exact some revenge for what transpired inside a...

Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon and assistant Bino Ranson reportedly had lunch today in Texas with Aaron Harrison Sr., the father of the 6-5 twin guards Aaron and Andrew Harrison, who are choosing between the Terps and defending national...